The Malatily Bathhouse
The film is an adaptation of a novel by Ismåeel Walieddin. The main character, Ahmad, leaves rural eastern Egypt for the city hoping to become economically self-sufficient, gets an apartment for his parents, and obtains a law degree. He and his family are refugees from a town occupied by the Israeli army, Ismaåilia. Ali, the owner of the Malatily Bathhouse, offers to let him stay there for free. Ahmad encounters several characters there, including Naåeema, a prostitute who he becomes obsessed with, and Raouf, a homosexual man.
Directed by Salah Abu Seif · Written by Salah Abu Seif
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Shams El-Barudy Naima -
Yousuf Shaaban Raouf the painter -
Muhammad al-Arabi Ahmed Taher Abdel Salam -
Nemat Mokhtar -
Fayez Halawa -
Naima ElSoghier Nabawiyah -
Abdel Ghani El Nagdi -
Souad Nasr -
Ahmad Bedir Antar -
Ibrahim Abdulraziq the narrator - Said Khalil
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Nahed Samir Um Ahmed
Make it a double feature
4h 26m together
The Malatily Bathhouse
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